Halo Officially Returns This Year, Brace Yourselves
We're awaiting the return of an absolute classic.
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Halo 2026
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With the current plan, Halo won't drive hardware sales at all. This has already been announced for PS5 and PC, expect any other future Halo game to hit PS5/6 and PC too. Wouldn't be surprised if the PS5 Pro version is the best console version either.
maflynn
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diamond.g
macrumors G5
Resurrecting the franchise on UE5 is probably not the right play, but I am willing to wait and see if I am wrong. It would have been more interesting if they used idTech, but here we are.
Since it's also just the campaign it's kinda the perfect thing to play on PC gamepass for $14. Personally I'll just stick with Halo MCC. Maybe I'll pick it up for a few dollars with Bing Rewards in a few years.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
That's what I'm hearing. I'm not a halo fan, though I've played some of the games. The reason I guess is that 343 Industries (now rebranded as Halo Studios) does not have any of the original talent that made Halo great. With the departure of Bungie and all of the layoffs I don't think the people who managed that game are there anymore.
diamond.g
macrumors G5
Yeah, now I am reading that Microsoft may have Activision get involved with any future Halo development. Which leads me to wonder if they game will end up feeling like a reskinned CoD. I'm actually unsure if Activision has any other FPS's these days other than CoD, lol.
Overwatch...
I guess you could argue that's not technically Activision but it came in on the same purchase.
They don't really have many games besides CoD these days really. A few Crash and Tony Hawk games. Kind of sad.
eyoungren
macrumors Nehalem
I'm more of a game observer. Meaning, I don't play the games, but I do keep an eye out for cinematic games that I may like and I watch playthroughs of those on YouTube. Halo was the first of these.
I've followed the lore, read some of the novels and consumed as many con interviews of Jen Taylor and Steve Downes as I could find over the years.
If it says anything about Halo: Campaign Evolved, I haven't really gone back to watching the playthrough I bookmarked. I don't want to say it's boring, so much as just not interesting. It isn't holding my attention. I will eventually get back to it, I want to see the parts that Downes and Tayor redid some of their lines on, but that is primarily the only attraction for me here.
I've followed the lore, read some of the novels and consumed as many con interviews of Jen Taylor and Steve Downes as I could find over the years.
If it says anything about Halo: Campaign Evolved, I haven't really gone back to watching the playthrough I bookmarked. I don't want to say it's boring, so much as just not interesting. It isn't holding my attention. I will eventually get back to it, I want to see the parts that Downes and Tayor redid some of their lines on, but that is primarily the only attraction for me here.
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